déclarer
French, verb/de.kla.ʁe/
déclarer is spelled D-É-C-L-A-R-E-R (8 letters) and appears 14 times per million words in written French, the 5,025th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Déclarer is a French verb meaning “to declare” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Faire connaître d’une façon manifeste”.
What does déclarer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to declare
déclarer la guerre à quelqu'un
- 2
to declare oneself (to be), to state (one's opinion) that, to come out in favour of/down against
se déclarer pour la peine de mort
- 3
to break out
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Faire connaître d’une façon manifeste. 2. Faire connaître d’une façon décisive, par acte public, par autorité publique. 3. S’expliquer, se manifester ou se faire connaître. 4. Exprimer des sentiments d'amour à quelqu'un.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of déclarer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- déclarant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- déclaré participle past
- déclare first-person indicative present
- déclares indicative present second-person
- déclarons first-person indicative plural
- déclarez indicative plural present
- déclarent indicative plural present
- déclarais first-person imperfect indicative
- déclarait imperfect indicative singular
- déclarions first-person imperfect indicative
- déclariez imperfect indicative plural
- déclaraient imperfect indicative plural
- déclarai first-person historic indicative
- déclaras historic indicative past
- déclara historic indicative past
- déclarâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce déclarer?
- /de.kla.ʁe/
- \de.kla.ʁe\
- [de.kla.ʁe]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to déclarer
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is déclarer in French?
déclarer appears 14 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).